We are the biggest fans of the National Parks. We try to visit as many as we can whenever we travel anywhere. There are so many cool things to see inside these parks. So many beautiful places and so much to learn!
Our boys have over 100 different junior ranger badges from National Parks, and other National Sites throughout Utah and the United States.
We also know that visiting a National Park requires some good information and planning, so we share all the details from our visit on these posts. We give tips and tricks, and all the things you need to know.
There are also specific posts about some of our favorite hikes in the national sites. This is to help you choose which trails are going to work for your family.
Kings Canyon National Park has an amazing number of short hikes that are kid and family-friendly. These hikes are less than 3 miles, and in many cases much shorter. They run to waterfalls, giant sequoia trees, lakes, and amazing viewpoints. Use this list of Kings Canyon Kid Hikes to inform you…
We've written about Roaring River Falls and the very short hike to the beautiful waterfall in Kings Canyon National Park. However, there is a secret hike not seen on park literature. This trail gives a second, more direct view of this noisy waterfall if you know how to find it. Park…
We have listed Hume Lake on our post about family-friendly hikes in Kings Canyon National Park, though it is outside park boundaries. Hume Lake actually sits in Sequoia National Forest, and is home to a youth camp. There is a lot of traffic around the camp, but the shore of Hume…
North Grove Loop in Kings Canyon is beautiful trail running 1.7 miles through a grove of majestic sequoias. The trail is a bit steep, but runs past sequoias in all phases of life. You can enjoy seeing young trees, towering giants, and even stark skeletons standing against the skyline. This hike…
General Grant Tree Trail is the must-do hike in Kings Canyon National Park. It is short, easy, busy, and well worth your time. General Grant is the tallest tree in this park, and lends its name to the village that houses park headquarters. At the trailhead, there is a large parking…
The Chicago Stump Trail is a very short trail in Kings Canyon National Park that leads to a very large sequoia stump. Signage at the stump explains that the tree was cut for the 1893 World's Fair and shipped to Chicago. The trail is short and easy, but requires a three…